Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen

The second profit (much more marvellous) is that all their evils are good unto us / god so provideth for us / for although their offences be evil occasions unto the weak / yet to them that be strong they be an exercise of virtue / an occasion of resisting of sin / and a great merit.

The secunde profit (moche more merueylous) is that all theyre euilles are good vnto vs / god so prouydeht for vs / for although theyre offences be euyll occasyons vnto the weake / yet to theim that be strong they be an exercyse of vertue / an occasyon of resisting of synne / and a greate meryte.

Blessed is that man which suffereth temptation / for when he is proved / he shall receive ⟨image 84⟩a crown of life / where is a greater temptation then the multitude of mischievous examples? finally for this cause the world is called one of the enemies of the elect people of god because that saith his enticements / and wicked works / he ••• reth us up provoketh us / & enticeth us from the weigh of god into his weigh / As it is written in Gen .vi. The children of god did see the daughters of men that they were fair / and they were made carnal. And in the .•xv. of Numeri / The children of Israel did fall with the daughters of the Moabites / so that it is wholesome that we ever be suppressed by some incommodity / lest that we (as they that are weak) offended by the evil occasions of the world should fall and sin. So lot is commended of S. Petre in the second of his second epistle / because that he suffered much evil by the w• ked examples of the sodomites / and nevertheless continued in his righteousness. Necessary it is therefore that evil occasions be given / which should be the occasion that we should resist sin & have victory / how be it woe be unto the world because of evil occasions. Doth then in the ⟨image 84⟩